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The Pros And Cons Of Electronic Cigarettes

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The electronic cigarettes are designed in different shapes and flavors to suit different tastes and preferences of the users. Some are designed to resemble USB memory sticks, traditional cigars and other commonly used materials such as pens (American Lung Association, n.d.). Electronic cigarettes are no longer news in many countries because it is already in the market in more 250 different brands and the number of users is increasing tremendously. However, the truth about safety issues of e-cigarettes is not known. Other people claim that the e-cigarettes are a way out to the smokers to help them quit smoking (Eversmoke, n.d.). Debates have been held in many parts of the world to discuss the possibility of the e-cigarettes being instrumental …show more content…

By definition, e-cigarettes, also known as the electronic nicotine delivery system or the electronic cigarettes are devices operated by the use of a battery to assist in delivering nicotine mixed with certain chemicals and flavorings into the body system of the users in the form of vapor (National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2015). Nicotine is the cigarette substance that leads to addiction, therefore; it is only justifiable to say that e-cigarettes use a strategy of introducing people to smoking. In fact, once a person starts using the e-cigarettes, it is possible that the addiction will lead him or her to mix it with the traditional cigarettes because the effects by the two in the lives of the smokers are practically the same (National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2015). There are evidence of people who use both the e-cigarettes and the traditional tobacco cigarettes at the same time because in both they get the same satisfaction they yearn …show more content…

The users, therefore, supplement it with the traditional tobacco cigarettes whenever they cannot afford it (Carr, 2014). In fact, the companies producing the e-cigarettes apply expensive and advanced technology in making such products available to the users, it is therefore natural that the products become more expensive as compared to the traditional tobacco cigarettes, though more preferable (American Lung Association, n.d.). In most cases, the youths, who have become the highest growing number of e-cigarettes users find it hard to afford the product every time they need them, they end up using more of the traditional tobacco

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They look so much like the real thing. The end lights up as you inhale and as you exhale a puff of vapor smoke-like substance comes out. Though e-cigarettes may present less health concerns than traditional cigarets by consuming the nicotine through vaping rather than smoke and burning they are still very harmful for the younger generation. Teens are more encouraged to try vaping using a tool made to help smokers stop but is now addicting a whole new generation. Electronic cigarettes over traditional cigarettes can be just as harmful.

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As I read this article, and continued my research on this topic, I have come to a decision. I disagree with the argument the electronic cigarettes will lead to the addictive use of traditional cigarettes. As more and more people purchase and use these electronic cigarettes, they become addicted to the artificial flavors of the e-juice and the nicotine, not the idea of traditional cigarettes. The multiple different flavors draw their attention, the nicotine is just the one thing they don’t pay as much attention to. They continue making new flavors that grab the attention of teens and young adults which is the reason more and more teens and young adults begin “smoking” electronic cigarettes.

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